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Title: Clergyman arrested in anti-segregation fight.
Description: Protestant, Catholic and Jewish clergymen have been among some 300 persons arrested in a series of efforts to integrate the privately owned Gwynn Oak Amusement Park. In one of the anti-segregation demonstrations outside the park, a minister donned a red, white and blue "Uncle Sam" outfit to symbolize the fight for racial equality. He was promptly arrested on trespassing charges. The clergyman, the Rev. David Andrews, assistant chaplain at Morgan State College, is shown here being taken into custody by police.
Creator Name(s): Wide World Photos, Inc. (photographer)
Date Created: 1963
Name Subject(s): Andrews, David., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights demonstrations--Maryland--Gwynn Oak--20th century., Segregation--Maryland--Gwynn Oak--20th century., African Americans--Civil rights--Maryland--Gwynn Oak--20th century., Civil rights--Religious aspects--20th century.
Geographic subjects: Maryland, Gwynn Oak, 20th century., Gwynn Oak, 20th century., Maryland, Gwynn Oak, 20th century., 20th century., Gwynn Oak (Baltimore, Md.), North and Central America--United States--Maryland--Baltimore
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Image no. 29586; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): ds3158
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:7310

Title: Eugene Carson Blake at demonstration.
Description: Blake, in straw hat, is preceded by William Sloane Coffin, chaplain of Yale University, and followed by Roman Catholic Father Joseph Connolly, as group moves in on Gwynn Oak Park to challenge segregation. [From Presbyterian Life, August 1, 1963, p. 25.]
Date Created: 1963, August 1, 1963
Name Subject(s): Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 1924-2006.
Topical Subject(s): Race relations--Religious aspects--Presbyterian Church., Civil rights demonstrations--Maryland--Woodlawn--20th century.
Geographic subjects: Gwynn Oak Park (Woodlawn, Md.), North and Central America--United States--Maryland--Woodlawn
Physical Location: MI P97; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Presbyterian Life.
Identifier (local): ds3099
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:7105

Title: Building bridges of understanding.
Description: Preached by Rev. Newbold in his capacity as Moderator of Baltimore Presbytery, in an attempt to explain the recent riots in Baltimore following the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King,
Creator Name(s): Newbold, Robert T., 1920- (author)
Date Created: 1968, June 30, 1968, June 30, 1968
Name Subject(s): First Presbyterian Church (Baltimore, Md.), United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbytery of Baltimore. Moderator (Newbold : 1968), King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Assassination.
Topical Subject(s): Race relations--Sermons., Sermons, American--African American authors., Riots--Maryland--Baltimore--April, 1968.
Geographic subjects: Maryland, Baltimore, April, 1968., Baltimore (Md.), North and Central America--United States--Maryland--Baltimore Independent City--Baltimore
Physical Location: PAMFOL E 185.615 .N42 1968; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Building bridges of understanding : a sermon / preached by the Reverend Robert T. Newbold, Jr. ; at First Presbyterian Church [Baltimore, Md.] 30 June, 1968.--https://catalog.history.pcusa.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=32421
Identifier (local): pam_fol_e_185_615_n42_1968
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:161400

Title: Fallston Presbyterian Church (Fallston, Md.) vigil, 2015.
Description: Vigil for "unity and peace," folllowing police murder of Freddie Gray in Baltimore.
Creator Name(s): Fallston Presbyterian Church (Fallston, Md.) (creator)
Date Created: 2015, April 2015, April 2015
Name Subject(s): Fallston Presbyterian Church (Fallston, Md.)
Topical Subject(s): Police brutality--United States., Police-community relations--United States., Racism--United States--21st century.
Geographic subjects: United States., United States., United States, 21st century., Fallston (Md.), North and Central America--United States--Maryland--Harford--Fallston
Physical Location: ARCHIVES 20-0608; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Black Lives Matter collection, 2014-2021. --http://prestohost68.inmagic.com/Presto/content/Detail.aspx?ctID=Y2RiNWNkNzctNWJhOS00Zjk1LTk4ZTgtNDZmNGYyNGFhZGMx&rID=MTk2NTI=
Identifier (local): Fallston2015
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:181670

Title: 1991 General Assembly silent protest.
Description: Silent march by gay and lesbian Presbyterians and their allies in plenary of the 203rd General Assembly of the PC(USA), introduced by moderator Herb Valentine. Media services identifier PM 91-013.
Creator Name(s): Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Presbyterian Mission Agency. Media Services.
Date Created: 1991, 1991, 1991
Name Subject(s): Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). General Assembly (203rd : 1991 : Baltimore, Md.), Valentine, Herbert Duncan, 1935-
Topical Subject(s): Homosexuality--Religious aspects--20th century.
Geographic subjects: 20th century., North and Central America--United States--Maryland--Baltimore--Baltimore Independent City, Baltimore (Md.)
Physical Location: ARCHIVES 13-0210, Box 29; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Media Services videotapes, 1979-2008.--http://prestohost68.inmagic.com/Presto/content/Detail.aspx?ctID=Y2RiNWNkNzctNWJhOS00Zjk1LTk4ZTgtNDZmNGYyNGFhZGMx&rID=OTU3MA==&qr
Identifier (local): 13-0210_bx29_GAProtest1991
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:145297

Title: Eugene Carson Blake arrested.
Description: Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, chief executive officer of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., is shown as he enter[s] a police van after being arrested in an attempt to integrate [the Gwynn Oak] white-only amusement park just outside Baltimore. Dr. Blake and 35 other clergymen--Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish, Negro and white--were among 283 persons arrested, jailed and then released on bond.
Creator Name(s): Curry, James E. (photographer), United Press International. (photographer)
Date Created: 1963
Name Subject(s): Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Religious News Service--Archives.
Topical Subject(s): Civil rights demonstrations--Maryland--Gwynn Oak--20th century., Segregation--Maryland--Gwynn Oak--20th century., African Americans--Civil rights--Maryland--Gwynn Oak--20th century., Civil rights--Religious aspects.
Geographic subjects: Maryland, Gwynn Oak, 20th century., Maryland, Gwynn Oak, 20th century., Maryland, Gwynn Oak, 20th century., Gwynn Oak (Baltimore, Md.), North and Central America--United States--Maryland--Baltimore
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Image no. 29572; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): ds3157
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:7398

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